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'LUCRET .AIA E. saune, 0F PnoRIA, ILLINOIS.

Letters .Patent No. 79,148, dated Junel23, 1868.

'IMPROVEMENT In LnArHEReWoRK RNAMENTS.

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T O ALL WHOM IT- MAY CONYCERN:

Be 'it known that I, LUCRETIA E. SLLEE, ofthe city and county'of Peoria, invented a. new and improved Mode of Imita'ting Doll-Heads, Carved Work, Flowe mental Work; and I do hereby declare thatthe followingiis a full, clear, of makingl the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in imitating the form of doll-heads, earned work, 1oWers,-u-nd other kinds of ornamental Work, bymeansvof leather, u ngnned hide, gatta percha, or other ,exible material, properly'pressed-in suitable moulds to obtain the form desired, inreombinntion with a .cement,compounded of is'nglass' and shellac, thickened :with finely-pulverized snd, to give the proper setorabacking to theiorm that may bc-ths made, so :is to prevent the same froxnbeing easily broken -by 'alls or other-violence thetkmayv happen lto them.

o enable any one skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction.

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After the cement has b thus' made may of the maker. K Y l Having thus` fully described my invention, what I claim therein as new, Paten t, is-

The combination of the cement with the leather, when formed substantially in the manner' and for the ecomehard, which it n'ill in a short time, from its exposure to the air, the article be removed from. the mould, and the some painted,` bronzed, or varnished, :is may suit the taste untanned hide, guita percha, purposes as herein described.

LUcRE'rIAV E. stillen.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WEST, JOHN C. YATEs.

and exact description offthe manner in the State of Illinois, here l Vand desire to secure by Letztere and other iiexible material, 

